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Hi, I'm Ann Kennedy on behalf of Expert Village and we'll be looking at correcting common
reading problems in children. The second common problem we're going to be looking at is how
young readers will sound out words and pay no attention at all to what the word means.
As they're still learning phonemic awareness, their sounds may be quick different than what
the word means. So how do we help guide them? Well the first thing that we say to them is
look at the picture. For example, even in The 3 Little Pigs, look at the picture, they
maybe calling this and saying, two-skip it-pigs. Let's look at the picture; 1, 2, 3. Three
Little, let's sound it out, Pigs. So if you see them sounding out words but they're not
paying attention to what the meaning is behind the words, they're not making that connection
of the pictures and the words connect, then have them look at the picture and almost picture
read it. Look at the picture and ask them too, because a lot of times by the time they
start reading, they've heard this book maybe 10 times and a lot of times they pretend read
and they're not really reading the words. Tell them to look at the picture and ask them
what happened in the story at this point? Now let's read it to find out. What happened
in the story? Again, the first little pig builds a house out of...it's not that the
children are trying to fool you, they've memorized the book because they love it but you have
to check. It's a checkpoint, are they just making up words or sounding out words because
they know the pictures. Stop them, look at text and pictures together.